Coventry's Tom Wood has bad news for Australia, the flanker admitting he will be a man on a mission at Twickenham on Saturday with personal and collective pride on the line.

After starting England’s opening two autumn clashes, the defeats to New Zealand and South Africa, Wood was relegated to the bench for last weekend’s Samoa clash.

And while he appeared off the bench for the final 13 minutes, the 28-year-old missed out on the majority of England’s first win in six games as James Haskell was handed the No.6 jersey.

However Wood is back in Stuart Lancaster’s starting XV for the visit of Australia to Twickenham this Saturday, the Northampton Saint eager to get in on the good feeling a victory brings from off this time around.

And he insists both he and England have a point to prove with the autumn internationals so far proving to be a difficult time for Lancaster’s troops.

“I was frustrated because I didn’t feel like I had done anything different in the first two games to feel like I warranted being dropped,” he said.

“I had worked really hard, I had done my set-piece work, I have done my fundamentals really well, hadn’t had the impact I wanted, hadn’t had the ball in hand or the big impact tackles I would have liked to have made, but I was still pretty happy with the foundation of my game.

“So I can’t do much different other than keep drafting and keep putting myself forward.

“You have got to provide energy for the team from the bench and do that role and make sure you support the group in the best role.

“This week I get the shirt and I’m sure James will do the same for me and it brings it into focus a little bit more that you have to earn that shirt every week.

“We would really like to finish on a high. We have poured our hearts and souls into it and we haven’t got the results we would have liked, it has been disappointing but we haven’t become a bad side because we have lost by three points a couple of times to two very, very good teams.

“We want to finish on a high. We have poured so much into the first three weeks; we have come in for a lot of criticism for various reasons, as an individual and as a team.

“We can’t let our confidence or our heads dip, we have to come out fighting which I will absolutely guarantee this team will do because I have been in this position with this team before, and I know these lads pretty well. We are a tight group and we will come out swinging on Saturday and hopefully everything will go our way.”

Much is being made of Saturday’s game with Australia the last southern hemisphere team England will face before the World Cup gets underway in less than a year’s time.

However Wood is adamant no one with a Red Rose on their chest will be thinking about next year’s World Cup at Rugby HQ this weekend – instead focusing on the here and the now.

“I know at the minute everything is being related to the World Cup but this is not something we are doing in-house,” Wood added.

“This game is important in its own right like every game is. We play at Twickenham in front of 80,000 people, we pull that shirt on and represent our country and it means the world to us.

“And it means the world to us because it is Australia at Twickenham on Saturday and nothing else. Nothing else matters really.”

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